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Enrolled SB 82: Making supplemental appropriations and other appropriations; amending the lapse dates of certain appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

00Enrolled SB 82 01 Making supplemental appropriations and other appropriations; amending the lapse dates of 02 certain appropriations; and providing for an effective date. 03 _______________ 04 * Section 1. DEPARTMENT OF LAW. The sum of $21,500,000 is appropriated from the 05 general fund to the Department of Law, oil, gas, and mining, for work related to the state gas 06 pipeline and to bringing North Slope natural gas to market, and to other oil and gas projects. 07 * Sec. 2. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES. (a) The sum of $6,550,000 is 08 appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Natural Resources for gas pipeline 09 analysis. 10 (b) The sum of $1,500,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 11 Natural Resources for oil and gas lease litigation. 12 * Sec. 3. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. (a) The sum of $3,000,000 is appropriated from 13 the general fund to the Department of Revenue for matters related to commercialization of 14 North Slope gas.

01 (b) The sum of $521,700 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 02 Revenue, tax division, for implementation costs of the petroleum production tax for the fiscal 03 year ending June 30, 2007. 04 (c) The amount necessary to issue refunds for capital expenditures and lease bids as 05 provided in AS 43.55.023(f) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, is appropriated from the 06 general fund to the Department of Revenue, tax division, for the purpose of making refunds 07 under AS 43.55.023(f). 08 * Sec. 4. AMENDMENT OF LAPSE OF CERTAIN PRIOR YEAR APPROPRIATIONS. 09 (a) Section 34(c), ch. 82, SLA 2006, is amended to read: 10 (c) The unexpended and unobligated balance of the appropriation made in sec. 11 7(d), ch. 6, SLA 2005, lapses June 30, 2008 [2007]. 12 (b) Section 64(c), ch. 3, FSSLA 2005, is amended to read: 13 (c) The appropriations made by 14 (1) sec. [SECS. 20(a), 20(c), 20(e), 20(f), AND] 37(b), ch. 3, FSSLA 15 2005, [OF THIS ACT] lapse June 30, 2007; 16 (2) secs. 20(a), 20(c), 20(e), and 20(f), ch. 3, FSSLA 2005, lapse 17 June 30, 2008. 18 (c) Section 20(d), ch. 3, FSSLA 2005, as amended by sec. 34(d), ch. 82, SLA 2006, 19 is amended to read: 20 (d) The sum of $1,525,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the 21 Department of Natural Resources for work related to the state gas pipeline and to 22 bringing North Slope natural gas to market, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2005, 23 June 30, 2006, [AND] June 30, 2007, and June 30, 2008, for the following purposes: 24 PURPOSE ALLOCATION 25 (1) Bullen Pt. Road right-of-way permitting $800,000 26 (2) Division of oil and gas increased workload 675,000 27 (3) Commissioner's office increased workload 50,000 28 * Sec. 5. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, COMMUNITY, AND ECONOMIC 29 DEVELOPMENT. (a) The sum of $576,318 is appropriated from program receipts from the 30 seafood marketing assessment (AS 16.51.120) and from other program receipts of the Alaska 31 Seafood Marketing Institute to the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic

01 Development, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, for expansion of the national consumer 02 marketing campaign for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007. 03 (b) The sum of $1,423,682 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 04 Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, 05 for expansion of the national consumer marketing campaign for the fiscal year ending 06 June 30, 2007. 07 (c) The sum appropriated in (b) of this section is intended to represent the cumulative 08 total of program receipts from the salmon marketing tax (former AS 43.76.110), from the 09 seafood marketing assessment (AS 16.51.120), and from program receipts from the Alaska 10 Seafood Marketing Institute that were collected through June 30, 2006, subject to transfer to 11 the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, less the cumulative total of program receipts from 12 those sources transferred to the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute through June 30, 2006. 13 * Sec. 6. LAPSE OF OTHER APPROPRIATIONS. The appropriations made by secs. 1, 2, 14 and 3(a) of this Act are not one-year appropriations and lapse as provided in AS 37.25.020. 15 * Sec. 7. RETROACTIVITY. (a) The appropriation made by sec. 1 of this Act is retroactive 16 to October 1, 2006. 17 (b) The appropriations made by sec. 2 of this Act are retroactive to February 1, 2007. 18 * Sec. 8. CONTINGENCY. The appropriation made in sec. 2(a) of this Act is contingent on 19 the enactment of a bill passed by the Twenty-Fifth Alaska State Legislature that establishes 20 the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act. 21 * Sec. 9. Section 5 of this Act takes effect March 16, 2007. 22 * Sec. 10. Except as provided in sec. 9 of this Act, this Act takes effect immediately under 23 AS 01.10.070(c).